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World Wide Technology Wins Cisco U.S. and Canada Theater Partner of the Year at 2007 Cisco Partner Summit
World Wide Technology also Wins the U.S. Enterprise Partner of the Year
ST. LOUIS – April 17, 2007 – World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT) announced today it has won the 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) U.S. and Canada Theatre Partner of the Year for demonstrating technical excellence and delivering customer value in the Federal, Service Provider, and Enterprise Customer Segments. WWT also won the 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. U.S. Enterprise Partner of the Year award for successfully executing and bringing value added solutions to WWT’s newest customer segment, becoming one of the largest partners while maintaining high customer satisfaction scores. Cisco unveiled the winners at its 2007 annual Partner Summit. These Channel Partner Awards highlight the Cisco top global and theater channel partners.
The ten global honorees were selected from a list of more than 3,000 Cisco Certified Channel Partners worldwide for their outstanding performance in 2006 and the five theater winners were selected for being the best in their given region.
“I had the honor and privilege of recognizing World Wide Technology as 2006 global winner for U.S. and Canada Theatre Partner of the Year,” said Keith Goodwin, senior vice president, Worldwide Channels at Cisco Systems. “As a Global Award Winner, WWT has distinguished themselves as one of the industry’s leading systems integrators and highlights their success as a Cisco channel partner.”
“WWT is appreciative of these accolades from Cisco and is more committed than ever to growing our Cisco business while delivering unique and relevant business solutions to our customers,” said Jim Kavanaugh, chief executive officer for World Wide Technology. “These awards highlight our accelerated growth, the exceptional work of our talented people and our ongoing commitment to Cisco as Gold partner. We’re exceptionally proud of the outstanding level of customer care we provide throughout North America and to our armed forces around the globe.”
The Cisco Global Awards are conferred to partners who meet a specific set of requirements, which are designed to identify the best channel partner in each category. Cisco has also built a formalized nomination and selection process that begins with each sales theater identifying and nominating a channel partner for each category. These nominations are reviewed and a collective group that includes Cisco worldwide channels and theater channel executives makes final selections. All of the global and theater Partner of the Year awards are in compliance with the requirements of the Cisco Channel Partner Program and customer satisfaction as its foundational criterion.
About WWT
World Wide Technology, Inc. is a systems integrator that provides innovative technology and supply chain solutions to the commercial, government and telecom sectors. The company brings to market a powerful blend of knowledge, infrastructure and technology to help its customers manage the planning, procurement and deployment of IT products and solutions. Based in St. Louis, the company works closely with industry leaders including Boeing (NYSE: BA); Dell (NASDAQ: DELL); Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO); Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC); AT&T Inc., formerly SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE: US:T); Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and the U.S. Air Force. WWT employs over 1,100 people and operates more than 1.6 million square-feet of warehousing, distribution and integration space in 20 facilities throughout the world. For more information on World Wide Technology, visit www.wwt.com.